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Anyone want to make a wild guess about who; health care reform will benefit?
Topic Started: Jul 31 2009, 07:08 PM (279 Views)
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BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS
Industry Is Generous To Influential Bloc
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 31, 2009

On June 19, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas made clear that he and a group of other conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs were increasingly unhappy with the direction that health-care legislation was taking in the House.

"The committees' draft falls short," the former pharmacy owner said in a statement that day, citing, among other things, provisions that major health-care companies also strongly oppose.

Five days later, Ross was the guest of honor at a special "health-care industry reception," one of at least seven fundraisers for the Arkansas lawmaker held by health-care companies or their lobbyists this year, according to publicly available invitations.

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At the same time, the group has set a record pace for fundraising this year through its political action committee, surpassing other congressional leadership PACs in collecting more than $1.1 million through June. More than half the money came from the health-care, insurance and financial services industries, marking a notable surge in donations from those sectors compared with earlier years, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.

A look at career contribution patterns also shows that typical Blue Dogs receive significantly more money -- about 25 percent -- from the health-care and insurance sectors than other Democrats, putting them closer to Republicans in attracting industry support.


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Many liberal Democrats and advocates of health-care reform were angry about the compromise bill and view the Blue Dogs as being too cozy with drugmakers, hospitals and insurers, and they argue that the conservative Democrats should be more supportive of the agenda set by President Obama and Democratic leaders.

"The Blue Dogs are carrying water for the industry instead of their constituents," said Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, a liberal pro-reform group. "In effect, the Blue Dogs and the Republicans are taking positions that are closer all the time and further away from what most Americans want."





Of course they want to slow the process down. The slower it moves the more money they can squeeze the industry for.
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jf1acai

'Proceed in haste, repent at leisure', or something like that.

So far all I have seen from the hasty decisions by both recent administrations has been legislation that we will all have a lot of time to repent.

I would much prefer that our elected representatives actually took enough time to read the proposed legislation, consider it reasonably, and eliminate at least some of the 'unintended consequences' before they bite us all in the butt.

But, I'm just an old curmudgeon :laugh:
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I agree..... I hate all of this : we HAVE to pass this bill by Wednesday - crap that has been going on for the last 9 months or so.
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I knew this would happen as soon as they tossed single payer into the crapper. Just like the Medicare "reform" it'll just be another boondoggle to funnel tax money to the big insurance companies while requiring us all to buy inadequate, overpriced policies to enable multi-million dollar salaries for the insurance company execs.
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